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I thought it would be more fun than this to water flowers during a heatwave!, from "Romance of Country Life" Wall Art
ART BY: Honoré Daumier
I thought it would be more fun than this to water flowers during a heatwave!, from "Romance of Country Life" Wall Art
ART BY: Honoré Daumier
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I thought it would be more fun than this to water flowers during a heatwave!, from "Romance of Country Life" is a lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (delteil) by Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), dated 1845. The artist is catalogued as French. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2527 × 3634 px. It is filed under Prints and Romanticism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 3,876 works by Honoré Daumier, a French artist.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Honoré Daumier →
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